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...loaded with electronic components that have the life span of gnats. That company has used the software to trim costs by figuring out the best time to replace many components across several product lines, while also introducing product upgrades. An executive with that company tells Time that his firm plans to make greater use of the SmithBayes software. Rival products, he says, can't factor in changes over time like SmithBayes': "Offering options over time is pretty unique to these guys." SmithBayes put its own software to use when it picked a subscription-based business model, instead of licensing...
...locals see an opportunity in the new technology. "Digital technology and the Internet are giving stations the power to do more with on-demand programming, online broadcasting and giving listeners exactly what they want," says Marc Hand, the managing director of Public Radio Capital, a consulting firm outside Denver. "The next few years will be telling...
...Kurdistan that included the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk. The veteran diplomat sees a window of opportunity for the current unity government to resolve some half a dozen divisive issues, ranging from federalism to agreeing on how oil contracts will be issued to setting a firm timeline for disarming the insurgents and militias attached to political parties...
...second largest city. It's doing good business in partnership with Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson, and has 70 employees. Jagomägi says he would like it to grow to about 150, but he's already lost a few of his people to the two other big technology firms in the country, Skype and Playtech, which develops the software for online casinos. Skype has 250 people in Estonia and reckons it will have exhausted the local job market once it gets up to 350. Thanks to its hip reputation - and the package of eBay options offered to staff...
...fairy tale." Even fairy tales can have bad scenes, of course. Savisaar is currently negotiating for the government to buy back the national railway, which it privatized in 2001 - a decision it now regrets. Plans to sell the state-owned energy company collapsed in 2002 when the acquiring U.S. firm couldn't obtain financing in the wake of Enron's bankruptcy. Estonia went through a brief recession and the government had to slash spending when Russia's financial crisis hit in 1998. The birthrate collapsed in the 1990s and has only now begun to turn upward again, helped by incentives...